Various Feminisms to Meet in Ankara on March 14-16

Kaos GL Association,Women’s Problems Research and Implementation Centre (KASAUM) and Ankara University Department of Women’s Studies will bring various states of feminism together in Ankara on March 14-16.

 

“Feminist Forum” will welcome feminist and LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex) organizations from Turkey as well as speakers from Armenia, Canada, Egypt, Georgia, India, Macedonia, North Cyprus and the UK.

 

Feminist activist, researcher and writer Cynthia Cockburn working at the intersection of gender studies and peace/conflict studies will make the opening speech of the joint program of Kaos GL’s the 3^rd International Feminist Forum and KASAUM’s 20^th Anniversary Activities. The program is as follows:

 

 

Ahmet Taner Kışlalı Art House, Cebeci Campus, Ankara University

Aziz Köklü Conference Room, Cebeci Campus, Ankara University

13.30-17.30 Women’s Peace Movements: Differences, Cooperations and Struggles

 

This workshop is organized by Women’s Initiative for Peace Ankara Group and Ankara University Women’s Studies Center/Women and Gender Studies Program

 

P.S. It is a close workshop and the number of participants is limited. For more information: ezgibsaritas@gmail.com and nazhidir@gmail.com

10.00-12.00 The Gender of War: Feminist Strategies for Peace

 

Speaker: Cynthia Cockburn

12.00-13.00 Lunch

13.00-15.30 Feminism and Anti-militarism: Women’s Peace Movements

 

Speakers:

Handan Çağlayan

Nazan Üstündağ

15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break

16.00 – 17.30 Regional Cooperations in the LGBT and Feminist Resistance Practices

 

Moderator: Ezgi Koçak

Panelists: Nada Zatouna, Egyptian activist

Jovana Ananievska, LGBTI Support Center, Macedonia

Nazik Armenakyan, Photographer, Armenia

 

12.00 – 13.30 Readingthe Stony Roads of Patriarchy and Heterosexism through the Eyes of Feminist Formations in Canada, Georgia and India

 

 

Moderator: Çiğdem Akgül

Panelists: Rachel-Alouki Labbé, Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights (UAF)

Roshmi Goswami, UAF

Mariam Gagoshashvili, UAF

 

14.00-15.30 The Evolution of Feminism in Turkey and Cyprus

Moderator: Funda Şenol Cantek

Panelists: Simten Çoşar, Member of Kaos GL Advisory Committee & Hacettepe University Faculty of Communication

MP Doğuş Derya, Northern Cyprus Parliament, Republican Turkish Party-United Forces (CTP-BG)   

15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break

 

16.00 – 18.00 Workshop: “If personal is political” what does the feminist politics stand for? 

         

Moderator: Alev Özkazanc

 

We gather in order to re-consider and act against the façade of the public-private distinction, the touchability of the allegedly untouchable maleist intimacy and the necessity to touch it, and the feminist ethics vis-à-vis the monopolistic claims of the conservative morals. The main issues that we touch upon: Political formations of intimate relations; the political appearance of the women’s experiences in fragility and sensitivity that relate to the private sphere and the “legitimacy” of the experiences of gay and bisexual women who are not open regarding the maleist-constructed  intimacy.

All the events are open to all and for free.